The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19

New I DIRK one day last week, ana IL is
said that 65, 900 tickets have been sold in
ireland and Scotland for America-the
emigrants to come in June.
1t is said that the Birmingham, Ala,
boom has burstedj and left lots of folks
badly hurt. Booms are dangerou things
to handle unless YOU know which end to,
take hold Of and just when to letrgo.
A, dispatch from Columbia, S. Co..
says that myriads of cotton caterpillars in
the Pee Dee swamp have stopped an en-
CINE and train of cars, by crawling on the.
rails and causing them to become slick.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
received from the government an average
Of $27,OO0 in cash, for every mile of road
constructed-an aggregate of $4,000, 900,
to say nothing of millions of acres of land.
We note that some of the farmers
clubs will hold fairs the coming fall. One
of the clubs in Forsyth county will hold
a fair and offers about 40 premiums. That
club is on the right track and will be sure
to live and prosper.
An exchange mentions as a rare oc-
currence that a captain Of a sloop lying
at the wharf "sneezed his set of artificial
teeth overheard" It would have been a
much more rare occurrence if he had
sneezed a set Of material teeth overheard.
While a large crowd of spectators
were viewing a colored baptizing in the
river at New Orleans last Sunday, a
defective railing around the wharf gave
way and a hundred or more were forced
into the river and about fifteen drowned.
Capt. B. P. Williamson has presented
US with a small bundle of Italian rye
grass 80 inches high, from a second cut
ting, the first cutting having been made
thirty days ago when the grass was 80
inches high. This makes a growth of 81
inches.
Some sharp wool dealers down in
Texas have resorted to a cute trick to-
evade the duty on wool imported from
Mexico. They drive focks of sheep
over the border and have duty as
sessed upon them as live stock, and then
do the shearing.
Albert Tabor, the colored villain who
committed a rape in Granville county last
March on a highly respectable lady, was
tried last week at Oxford and condemned
to be hung on the 18th Of June. The
jury was composed of two white mep
and ten negroes.
The Southern Cultivatos, at Atlanta,
Ca, has been published continuously for
forty-four years, and is, we 9fe glad to
learn, fourishing. Such jotrnals are a
credit to the section in which they are
published, and to the people who show
their appreciation Of them by liberal sup
port.
A new device is being adopted on
the Richmond & Danville Railroad trains
to take the place of the old bell cord. It
is a steam whistle placed in the cab Of the
locomotive, operated by steam from the
boilers of the engine, carried through
pipes attached to the cars similar to the
pipes on the air-brakes.>
There is one advantage in being I'M
known to fame. There will be no neces-
sity Of having your grave guarded to
prevent your bones from being stolen. It
is said that a plot has been recently ex-
posed to steal the bones of Henry Ward
Beecher from their temporary sepulcher
in Greenwood Cemetery, and policemen
have been placed there to guard it..
TO remove the scales or loose bark
onapple trees and to destroy the habita-
ton Of the codling moth, some persons
resort to scraping or to whitewashsng the
bodies of the trees We have always
found that a liberal wash of I've soap will
do the work effectually. This should be
done in early spring, but it is not too late
now to be of great benefit to the trees.
DR.. Frank M. Deems, resident Of
New York, son of Rev. DIR. G. F. Deems,
the well-known preacher, seems to have
domestic trouble. His wife sues for di-
vorce, alleging that he is a victim of the
morphine habit, that he is very cruel and
that she fears to live with him, while he
that she is also a victim of NOR